page_title: List of rabbis
section_title: Rabbis: 16th – 17th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: List of rabbis / Rabbis: 16th – 18th centuries / Rabbis: 16th – 17th centuries
caption_attribution_description: English: Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis) (1530 - 1572) - a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha (Jewish law), titled the Mapah (HaMapah), a component of the Shulkhan Arukh. He is also well known for Darkhei Moshe, a commentary on the Tur. Isserles is also "the ReMA" (or "the RAMA") רמ״א, the Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Moses Isserles.
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent rabbis. Rabbis are Judaism's spiritual and religious leaders.
  See also: List of Jews.
context_section_description: Isaac Abendana (c. 1640–1699), 17th-century Sephardic scholar in England
  Jacob Abendana (c. 1630–1685), 17th-century Sephardic rabbi in England
  Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605–1693), 17th-century Dutch scholar and Kabbalist, first Rabbi in the Americas
  Abraham Amigo (c. 1610–c. 1683), Judean rabbi
  Bezalel Ashkenazi (c. 1520–c.1592), (Shittah Mekubetzet), 16th-century Talmudist
  Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656–1718), author of Chacham Tzvi
  Yair Bacharach (Havvot Yair 1639–1702), 17th-century German Talmudist
  Menahem ben Moshe Bavli (Ta'amei Ha-Misvot, 1571), 16th-century rabbi
  Abraham ben Saul Broda (c. 1640–1717), Bohemian Talmudist
  Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), Russo-German rabbi and Kabbalist
  Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK, 1522–1570), 16th-century Holy Land Kabbalistic scholar
  Samuel Edels (Mahrsha, 1555–1631), 16th-century Talmudist
  Kalonymus Haberkasten, 16th-century Polish rabbi
  David HaLevi Segal, (Taz, 1586–1667, 16th-century Halakhist, major commentary on the Shulchan Aruch
  Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH, c.1570–c.1635), 16th-century Kabbalist and philosopher Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Bet Hillel, (1615–1690), 17th-century Lithuanian scholar
  Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah, c.1565–1632) 16th-century Kabbalist and Author, Eastern Europe and Israel
  Moshe Isserles (Rema, 1520–1572), 16th-century Polish legal scholar, author of Ha-mappah (component of the Shulchan Aruch)
  Yosef Karo (Mechaber, 1488–1575), 16th-century Spanish and Land of Israel legal codifier of the Shulchan Aruch
  Meir ben Isaac (1482–1565) and his son Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen (1521–1597) of Padua
  Elijah Loans (1555–1636), 16th–17th-century German rabbi and Kabbalist
  Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal, 1512–1609), 16th-century Prague mystic and Talmudist
  Meir of Lublin (Maharam, 1558–1616), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
  Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (1550–1619), 16th–17th-century Torah commentator
  Isaac Luria (1534–1572) (Ari, 1534–1572), 16th-century Holy Land mystic, founder of Lurianic Kabbalah
  Solomon Luria (Maharshal, 1510–1573), 16th-century Posek and Talmudist
  Menasseh Ben Israel (1604–1657), 17th-century Dutch rabbi and advocate of resettlement in England
  David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born at Salonica) (1591–1657), Dutch rabbi, born in Salonica
  David Pardo (Dutch rabbi, born in Amsterdam), translator of Joseph Pardo's (his father) Shulchan Tahor into Spanish
  Joseph Pardo (rabbi) (c. 1561–1619), Italian rabbi and merchant
  Samuel Schotten (1644–1719), 17th-century rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt
  Shalom Shachna (1495–1558), 16th-century Polish Talmudist, Rosh Yeshiva of several great Acharonim
  Sforno, 15th, 16th, and 17th-century family of Italian Torah scholars and philosophers
  Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno, 1475–1550), 16th-century Italian scholar and rationalist
  Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620), 16th-century Kabbalist
  Mordecai Yoffe ("Levush", c.1530–1612), 16th–17th-century Polish rabbi, codifier of halakha
  Hayyim Abraham Israel ben Benjamin Ze’evi (c.1650–1731) Palestinian rabbi
  Ephraim Zalman Shor, (c.1550–1633) Czech rabbi
  Simcha Rappaport (1650 - 1718), Ukrainian rabbi
caption: Moses Isserles
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